skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would like to understand why numbers looks like leaves

1st of all they don't. The graph doesn't look like pinnatids or palmatids. There is some resemblance of an alternating disposition of leaves, but that's not the shape of the leaf itself but the distribution of them, and it's a stretch.

Secondly, I'll take the generous interpretation of the question which is, why the graph looks mathematically like leaves, and not a question of biological impact, whatever resemblance is a coincidence which brings us to

Third, OP is playing a game with numbers with no objective goal (yes all maths is this, but this is straight up chmess), there is no ultimate meaning to be derived of it.
Freedom of navigation is a part of international law major powers usually care about, because international trade serves their interests.

Maybe a bunch of small North European countries decide to blockade Russia in the Baltic Sea, and maybe Russia doesn't consider this an act of war, because NATO seems credible enough. Suddenly the Houthi attempt to blockade the Red Sea becomes much more legitimate, and Iran will certainly take note. Maybe Panama goes shopping for allies (since the US is starting to look unpredictable), and maybe China gains the power to decide who gets to use the canal. And maybe Turkey (which is technically a NATO member but not in particularly friendly terms with the West) decides that it is allowed to control access to the Black Sea.
As someone who exclusively uses emacs for all their editing, some nice topics there; though a bit miffed it's all video only.

Although this, from the page linked, was pretty fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc
For a one-off journey with limited flexibility, I would normally plan to be at the station 15 minutes prior to departure.

If it's a train that runs every half hour or so, and my ticket is flexible (which is common) I might cut that to 5 or so.
This has almost nothing to do with numbers or ZFC and almost everything to do with how graph layout algo's produce their outputs...
Is their a design document, somewhere about this new library ?

The jep does not explain how to prepare to new Java bytecodes and future enhancements. Am i suppose to only run with the latest version of Java if i want to use that library ?
I wondered if there was any merit to this article.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/442818/per-capita-alcoho...

From Statista data, I don't see any trend decreased consumption, but perhaps it is too soon. The data is only from 1850 to 2022. For myself, I have been drinking dramatically less but cannot claim abstinence yet.
Yes, I try to avoid tech to the extent possible. The joy I find in things is inversely proportional to the amount of tech they involve.
Lots of words about a legal threat, but I didn't actually see what those words were that were so threatening. On what grounds does Spotify have the ability to shut down a satire site? How spineless are Unwrapped to immediately cave?

The entire discussion here is people's opinion on the Spotify service compared to its competitors, yet no actual discussion of TFA.
Yeah, that's sleeper train travel 101. Either be young and not too tall and on a budget, or pay for a private cabin.
A number of these old 3D screensavers are identical to examples in the old OpenGL red book, the version that's now available for free online.

I wonder if they were just copied from the book?
You suggest that the judges become literal fashion police, each individual with the authority to remove a contestant whose clothes are not impressive in their personal opinion.

See also: Tennis. Schools. Restaurants. Courtrooms. Offices. Stores. Even public sidewalks.

Welcome to society.
Meanwhile in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/via-rain-passengers-...
> The solution to this problem is straightforward. Putin can get out of Ukraine.

Or Ukraine can surrender. "Simple" to do, "easy" to achieve, no more Ukrainians need to die.

Disclaimer: I'm not suggesting Ukraine should surrender. I'm saying both Ukraine's surrender and the Russian pull-out are equally hard to do from their respective perspectives.
I mean, can't we say that about basically everyone except the people in the African plains/the fertile crescent? The whole species is descended at some point from people who moved away from where they were born
The U.S. is an extremely litigious society. Even when Lincoln was a young professional, he had the frontier job of… attorney. So there’s something to that which bares examining when discussing how trust gets built and reinforced in American culture. (Probably something about settler culture and property rights and the only way to resolve disagreements about it via the law.)

One wonders how much of the high trust was a product of the immense prosperity unlocked by industrialization, some ameliorating reforms during the Progressive Era that mitigated the excesses of the Gilded Era, the New Deal, and postwar victory.
They work, sure. It just involves queueing, lots of manual checks, endless amounts of misery at airports, etc. But it works. But I would label it as a problem.

I like being able to skip all of that. That works too. It's not that hard.
Interesting. I always hear "you don't need a full blown IDE, vscode/neovim/other text editor should be enough". Then I read those articles about which plugins/bundles/addons I need to install and I wonder at which point do we call it IDE instead of text editor (with plugins).
From what I can tell (though this varied by culture!) free first born males stayed with the parents. Females were often traded to other tribes (both as war spoils and more peaceful ways). Free second and later sons often discovered the family land couldn't support them and their older brothers families and left looking for anyplace to live (often resulting in war which in turned eased population pressure, though sometimes a city job existed though they were worse than farming until the industrial revolution). Slaves of course had no control of where the children went. The sexism above was real, though how is manifested varied from culture to culture with some worse than others (sometimes it was the oldest female who stayed home).

Genetic diversity requires someone leave their family and join a different one. How that happened varied but nearly every culture recognized siblings having children together resulted in deformed kids and thus developed a culture to prevent that. Every culture includes other animals.
> rituals and doctrines around proving there is no God

Please provide evidence to substantiate this claim.
It's an odds thing. He was unlikely to win. There are some very strong opponents. Could he have won? Sure. But note that he didn't protest the dress code at the beginning of the event.

And sure, he's "fed up" with FIDE (in the sense that everyone who thinks they are bigger than a league does). So why did he participate? If he had the purported principles, he should just withdraw from FIDE sanctioned events, no?
LLVM-Mca – LLVM Machine Code Analyzer
In Compiler Explorer, go to Add Tool -> llvm-mca
For example: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/e8M3MK8zM
> So it's Free as in speech, not as in beer.

See how in my comment I use 4 synonyms for "free", including "gratis"? That was not just trying to sound cool. That was trying (and evidently, failing, given you're not the only one) to pre-empt this exact point.

> It's entirely possible to sell free software.

This is much more controversial in the FOSS space than it seems to outsiders.

There is the obvious problem that one of the Freedoms involves the ability to take your purchased copy and give it away 'gratis' to everyone else, thus undercutting the market for the original author.

And this begs the question: Can I practically charge money for the freedoms? Must it be gratis?

It would be relatively easy to write a license with a royalty fee. Every time you distribute a copy of the fork, you must pay the original author. This would be a cromulent way to get around the piracy problem.

Except it is deeply controversial. To the point where even the FSF tries to play games around "selling the software" versus "selling the service of providing a download of the software".

In practice, no you can't really sell Free Software. Just look at all the startups that were Open Source and immediately shut that down when the infinite free venture capital ran out.

> Non-commercial actually worsens the free-rider situation imo. I don't count it as Free Software at all.

I simply do not care about the designation of "Free Software". It sucks and has painted itself into a corner. Modern policing of it's meaning (especially by the OSI which hilariously tries to pretend that "Open Source" is subject to FOSS definitions) is entirely just hypocrisy favouring the GPL.

If you want to get paid, cash money, just fucking put it in the license. Use a user agreement like everyone else on the planet.

If you want it to be Free, slap a 'gratis' license on there and don't get upset when companies don't give anything back.
Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
I am seeing many anecdotal experiences shared online on various platforms stating that it is difficult to find employment in tech. I myself have had a difficult time landing an interview over the last year despite having two decades of experience.

I am attempting to gain some insight into the issue. My situation is somewhat unique in that I am self-taught without a CS degree. I'm a very experienced, diligent worker, etc, but an algorithm doesn't care about this and so getting through the filters is difficult.

However I see many discussions being posted (primarily on X) stating that it is nearly impossible for people with CS degrees (especially white males) to get an interview let alone a job. There have been mass layoffs, less money being invested etc.
Many people have claimed AI is taking jobs, or that there aren't as many jobs available, yet at the same time, Elon Musk and others claim there is an engineer shortage and we must increase the number of H-1B visas in order to fill this gap. When I apply to a position on linkedin I can see that even the most Jr positions have over 100 applicants.

I know that X can be slanted, and really anything posted online must be taken with a grain of salt - but I'm seeing many people claiming to be in the same situation as myself, and most of them claim to be white males.

Furthermore, in the last two years I experienced two layoffs. In both situations it was white males let go in favor of Indian and KZ foreigners. Again - this is anecdotal and could be a coincidence, but its awfully telling that Vivek and Elon are calling American tech workers uncultured, lazy and stupid in the wake of these experiences and those that I've read about online.

I don't want to start a war here on hackernews, but I'm looking for people's personal experiences. Do they match up? Are you having a hard time finding employment? Have you been fired in favor of foreign workers? Is this racism / ageism / sexism at play or is that being overblown by political actors?
> EmacsConf feels like a nice, cozy get-together where people share the cool things they've been working on and thinking about.

Emacsconf was indeed executed great this year, and nice and cozy were my feelings too. It's interesting to compare and contrast the ambience between Emacsconf and that of the other editors' like neovim conf and the release "parties" of Visual Studio Code and Jetbrains.
It is not innocent passage if they attack the order and security of the coastal State. Article 19 and 21. Undersea cables are explicitly mentioned under 21.

By attack undersea cables the ship are no longer exercising the right of innocent passage, and thus is not protected under the law of the sea.
I have a similar problem with a Jetson board. If I turn off the power long enough (one night) and then turn it on, the only PCI card is not recognized and I have to power-cycle it to get it running.
Yes and since a majority of college goers now see it as a job mill (that's what it is for most) the move for college is also just a preemptive move for work
To be fair though, it's not like the trains were exactly great in the UK before privatisation.
Agree with others. This is overkill. You can have similar effect by following Dutch social media accounts (libraries, museums, and bookstores are particularly good), subscribing to Dutch news email newsletters, even changing your OS on your phone and computer to Dutch if your Dutch is already at a good enough level.
Is there a write up somewhere talking about the panicking? It might be interesting to read. I am curious how they enabled people to do this without realizing people would do it.
> "She reports that many middle and high schools in the US have turned away from literary texts in favour of short passages to enable the better teaching and testing of information skills that are directly relevant to the workplace."

I would suspect that the inability to comprehend longer texts correlates with lesser ability in "theory of mind," [0] which is part many other abilities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
You are on a soapbox challenging the status quo of every country on earth and I’m not, so you automatically have the higher burden of argument. I’m not defending the status quo, I only jumped in to help people who were making obviously incorrect and wildly negative assumptions about the reasons for border policies.

There are lots of reasons why the border policies between cities and countries might/can/should be very different, including but not limited to countries having a federal government or something analogous, and countries specifically wanting the free flow of citizens and their money within the country. Countries generally want the flow of citizens and money from other countries too, but they want control over what gets in the country. It seems fairly obvious to me that that strict city border policies everywhere serves little purpose and would be obnoxious and limiting for the people and the economy of that country, and that it would require a ton of enforcement resources that small cities don’t even have.

Here’s an analogy. Lots of companies have VPNs to get access to the company network. You don’t have a separate VPN for every team, or every building, or every computer. A few secret labs might have their own security, but by and large once you enter the company’s network, you have access to all the company resources. The VPN is like the country border. It’s a small hurdle for the employees of that company, but if there were hierarchical VPNs for everything everywhere in the company it would interfere with people’s ability to work and do very little to increase security; it would be net downside.

Again, it does not matter what my argument is. If you want to know the reasons why all countries in the world have border policies and why the country border policies are usually more strict than cities, the reasons have been written down, debated for hundreds of years, they exist and you are free to go read them if you’re actually curious (which you should be if you think it should change). They aren’t on Hacker News though, and no amount of opining on Hacker News is going to change the world’s border policies.
https://github.com/ipetkov/crane makes integrating rust and nix incredibly easy
the Valve of music might be Bandcamp.
Because it works, quite well actually. It isn't that hard or expensive. And it's convenient. Why push for the old stuff? There's absolutely nothing fun about having to queue for some TSA prick for two hours after a transatlantic flight who hates his pointless, miserable life (and rightfully so). All that stuff can be automated these days.
On my system it's ctrl+tab to cycle through tabs, then escape to open the one that is currently highlighted.
Why should an accident be the fault of all of Russia?
It really depends on the route.

When searching a journey, it's easy to see if the route with connections repeats every 20, 30, 60 minutes or something else.

Stricter tickets mattering or not depends on the country.
Author here; see also the entire series of posts on https://esp32-open-mac.be/
I thought this only happened 9 or so games in?
I've never seen a company benefit from layers of MBAs who are only there to hide their screw ups from the leadership while doing whatever they can to get promoted.

Strong organizations are usually bottom up, with a lot of ownership and direct contact between people doing the work and ones steering the ship.
I think if you wanted to bring up meaningful words, those were not the best examples to give. In the recent years, somewhere amongst the endless nuclear threat screeching and the ignored ICC arrest warrants, they have lost a lot of meaning. The declaration of war is a pretty good example of that, actually, being an outdated and withered concept.

I'm simply pointing out that words do not matter as much, willingness to do something, to respond, to defend yourself, that's what matters. I'm not ignoring the value of laws, and rules, and regulations, but they clearly are not an ironclad defense. Just like Article 5 isn't.
The children of that immigrants are growing up and seem to have less concern about the cousins back in the old country - their home is the US as are all their friends. The people back in the old country are interesting but not really relevant.
"anglo cultures" already had quite a lead before WW2, hard to miss that the previous superpower was the British Empire. The outcome of WW2 elevated America, there's no relationship there to broader anglo culture.

Quite a stretch to jump to "everyone might be miserable". Immigration from Latin American and other non-anglo countries is on a scale where it shapes American and British domestic politics, difficult to conclude that those immigrants are searching for the misery of anglo cultures that they can't find at home.
Amazing work again! EmacsConf was as fun as ever this year
Turns out that humans have been right for the last 100.000 years and it takes a village to raise a kid.
The situation was pretty bad a few years ago, and the licensing was confusing but it's pretty straightforward now with Alire. (AdaCore also got rid of their "Community Edition which had the weird license restrictions).

I'm doing a presentation at FOSDEM next year called "Get started with Ada in 2 minutes or less!"[1]; because (on MacOS and Linux) I can go from not having no toolchain a all to compiling hello world in under 2 minutes (I've timed it).

Here's some steps:

1. open your terminal, run the following command: curl --proto '=https' -sSf https://www.getada.dev/init.sh | sh

Congratulations, you now have Alire!

2. Run the following command: alr init --bin hello

Now you have a fully structured Ada project, gpr files and all!

3. Edit your program in hello/src/hello.adb

You can use vscode to open the hello folder with the Ada Language server, or just run "alr edit" to open your editor with all of the files built in.

4. Compile with: alr build

Alire will automatically grab the latest native toolchain (gnat, gprbuild, etc) and compile the program.

If you want to use another toolchain, such as for cross-compiling, or another version of GNAT, simply run: alr toolchains --select

5. Run the program: hello/bin/helo

On windows, you can just download the windows installer; alire is also on Freshports for the BSDs.

[1] https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5056-get-...
Beken modules are so weirdly cheap. I've seen them inside 2£ LED bulbs in discount stores.
> when the also expensive video games market seemed to be doing OK

I’m pretty sure ballooning AAA budgets leading to studio death marches, lack of courage to innovate and deviate from a winning formula, the demise of mid-budget games, etc. have plagued the industry for over a decade now.

Whereas in Olde Hollywood, streaming has eaten its lunch, theaters are struggling to stay afloat, the demise of mid-budget films (when’s the last time you’ve seen a comedy in theaters?), and so on.

The book publishing industry is made up of copyright hawks, I can only assume because the internet has allowed self-publishing and unending amounts of free text to compete with.

This is not a good time for content in any format.
We can't move anywhere because we can't afford to. When 500,000 H1-B visas are brought into the USA to do entry level accounting and programming jobs, we have far less negotiating leverage to work remotely or make higher pay. Supply and demand. Your employer wants to increase the labor supply to reduce your price (your salary) and options like working where you wish.
100%. The vast majority of it is meaningless. People tried to copy google back in the day, and apple, etc. None of it makes a meaningful difference. The only thing Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia etc have in common - a really great product/service in a large, growing market that lends itself to a competitive advantage.
I think people have a short memory. It was not that long ago that you’d have to pay 10+e for an album, where most of that would go to the record labels. Now I can pay 10e a month and listen to almost every song ever made, and I’m not going to be willing to pay much more than that.

Artists make their money with live events nowadays. Spotify’s average profit for the last 4 years is around 500m per year. Investors need to be paid and distributing some of that profit among a handful of top artists isn’t going to go a long way.

So how do you suppose we pay the artists more royalties?
The Epic Games Store of music, surely.
GNAT CE isn't a thing anymore, only FSF and Pro exist. And AdaCore now sponsors Alire, which installs FSF GNAT, and relicensed some of their tools more permissively.
Nice work. Any recommendations for folks looking for an app that suggests workouts and routines based on prior workout history? (E.g. identifying muscle groups not being hit by historical routines)

I’ve just been keeping a running workout log in Apple Notes for the past couple of months.

I’ve had a lot of success just copy/pasting my workout log into ChatGPT and it’s surprisingly good at making recommendations, but I’m scared that by using an app I’ll loose access to the raw data unless it’s somehow exportable.
purplesyringa's post below is ~7 assembly instructions without any need of lookup tables.

And the instructions purplesyringa uses are Add, AND, OR, and Compare. Modern CPUs can execute ~4 ADD/AND/OR instructions per clock tick (even if they are SIMD or even AVX512 instructions), so you're looking at under 4ish clock cycles to purplesyringa's solution.

Its likely the best solution in the whole thread. The main advantage of pshufb is its extreme flexibility due to the lookup table, so there's advantages in learning that methodology.

But in general, sequences of simpler instructions are much faster.

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The "hard part" of purplesyringa's code is that its branchless.

Learning to write branchless (especially using the pcmpeq* line of instructions) is a bit of a hassle and worth practicing for sure. AVX512 added explicit mask registers that do it better but 128-bit SSE / 256-bit AVX is still more widespread today.
> I'm curious when AI generated music will displace most artist-created music on Spotify or similar platforms, and if we will even notice. It will probably cost a few dollars per track to generate.

I sure hope not. I may not buy lots of music, but I have been to see many of my favourite artists in person, in venues that range from a few hundred people to a few thousand - certainly nothing on the scale of Swift or Beyoncé. And I discovered many of those artists through streaming.
On the main page for this year there are all kinds of media available, audio, video, slides, transcripts, Q&A: https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/.